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Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve

Bone and Copper Arrows Found in Melting Ice Patches
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Read the abstract and get the link to an article published in the Journal of Glacial Archaeology on new artifacts found in ice patches in the St Elias Mountains: Thomas, C. D., P. G. Hare, J. D. Reuther, J. S. Rogers, H. K. Cooper, and E. J. Dixon. 2020. Yukon First Nation use of copper for end-blades on hunting arrows. Journal of Glacial Archaeology (2016):109-131.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Bladensburg Waterfront Park
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Bladensburg Waterfront Park, located in Prince George’s County, Maryland, runs along the Anacostia River, one of the most historic waterways in America and features a paved riverside walk, picnic pavilion, fishing pier, playgrounds and more.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Baltimore Visitor Center
  • Type: Place

The Baltimore Visitor Center is an excellent starting point for exploring Baltimore City. The large, state-of-the-art facility provides up-to-date information, resources, and services for visitors to learn about the best sites to visit in Baltimore.

Samuel Neale
  • Type: Person

Learn about the service of Samuel Neale, steward and surgeon's mate, during the War of 1812 and how research into his pension application revealed his story.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

B Reactor Atomic Culture Room: The Blade of Grass in a Dreamless Field
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This Blade of Grass in a Dreamless Field exhibit panel is part of the Atomic Culture Room at the B Reactor. From Dr. Strangelove to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the nuclear age has and continues to influence popular culture. This Atomic Culture exhibit highlights just a few examples in cinema, literature, and music of how we collectively grapple with the profundity of the nuclear age. This article provides an image of the panel, text, and description of the panel.

Fort Washington Park
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Built to defend the river approach to Washington, DC, Fort Washington has stood as silent sentry for over 200 years. As technologies advanced so did Fort Washington, from the brick and stone of the 19th century to the concrete and steel of the 20th century. Joining the National Park Service in 1946, the park continues to protect the Potomac River.

Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
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The trail takes you through 12 miles of forest, fields, marsh and river ecosystem.

Fort Mahan
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Fort Mahan, situated on an isolated hill belonging to Dr. William Manning, was built to guard the approaches to Benning's Bridge which crosses the Anacostia River.

Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail

Potholes Coulee
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Potholes Coulee is very similar to Dry Falls cataract located in Lower Grand Coulee; in that it consists of two arcuate alcoves separated by a relatively thin “rock blade”. Similar plunge pools (now filled with lakes) are also located at the base of the two alcoves in Potholes Coulee. Ancient Lakes are located in the northern alcove, while Dusty Lake occupies the southern alcove portion below the cataract.

Robert Ross
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Robert Ross worked his way up through the ranks of the British Army through successes in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. He is most famous for leading the attack on Washington in retaliation for the earlier sack of York, the Canadian capital, ordering the White House and Capitol burned.

American Battlefield Protection Program

Never the Same River Twice: Interpreting the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg
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With financial assistance from a 2022 NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Battlefield Interpretation Grant, Anacostia Trails Heritage Area will develop an interpretive plan to unify visitor experience of the historical and contemporary landscape with multilingual content and enhanced accessibility.

Charles Ball
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Charles Ball escaped slavery to join the US Navy flotilla & served with distinction during the War of 1812, participating in Battles of St. Leonard Creek and Bladensburg in 1814.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Michael Shiner
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As a young boy, Michael Shiner witnessed the burning of Washington D.C. in 1814.

Rock Creek Park

Barbara Smith Suter
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Barbara Smith Suter was a resident of the Old Stone House in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Learn about her exciting brush with history.

Boarding Pistol or Bayonet Pistol
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This object in the collection of Salem Maritime is a brass, cannon barrel, boxlock flintlock pistol. It is approximately 11½ inches in length overall, 3½ inches in height, with a 6-inch barrel. Attached on the underside of the barrel near the muzzle is a spring bayonet, with a 4¼ inch blade. This piece was acquired by the park in 1974 from the collection of Gettysburg National Military Park, as a representative of a style of pistol utilized on Salem merchant vessels.

U.S. Marine Corps Barracks and Commandant’s House
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The oldest continually active post in the Marine Corps, the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks and the adjacent Marine Corps Commandant's House represent the important role the Marine Corps has played in the defense of the nation since the early days of the Republic. The site became the headquarters of the Marine Corps in 1801.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Frederick F. Dent
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"Colonel" Frederick Fayette Dent was the father of Julia Dent Grant, father-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant, and owner of the White Haven estate in St. Louis, Missouri for more than forty years.

Homestead National Historical Park

Dempster Steel Windmills
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Dempster steel windmills refers to open back-geared steel pumping windmills. Back-gears and curved blades allowed these metal mills to out-pump older wooden mills. Dempster Steel windmills were designed with their wheel mounted slight to one side so they turned away from increasing winds. Most had a spring to pull the wheel back into the wind when the wind slowed. Dempster steel windmill models include the Queen City, Dempster Steel, No. 6, No. 7, Arrow, No. 8, and No. 10.

Summer 1814: American troops flee in humiliation, leaving Washington exposed
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In the hot, humid summer of 1814, British troops advanced on Washington, DC. Their only obstacle was American troops guarding the heights at Bladensburg, Maryland, ten miles outside the capital. After a brief battle, the Americans took flight in their most humiliating defeat of the war, and British troops captured Washington.